1 "Eeeeeek!" screamed Melissa. "A mouse in the house! Eeeeek!"
2 "Where?" answered Matt calmly. "Where is the mouse?"
3 "Over there!" said Melissa in a trembling voice. "It went behind the TV next to the fireplace! Do something, quick!"
4 Matt walked over to the cold fireplace and looked behind the television. He could not see a mouse. He looked all around the fireplace. He could not see anything.
5 "I can't see it now," he said calmly. "It must have gone into the wall."
6 "Well, DO SOMETHING!" shouted Melissa, still shaken. "I don't want to sleep in this house tonight knowing there is a mouse in the house!"
7 "All right," said Matt. "I'll go get a mousetrap and see what we come up with in the morning, but," he said thinking out loud, "I wonder if we could bring Simba inside for a while and see if she can catch it."
8 Melissa thought about this for a minute and then shook her head. "No, I don't think you should bring in the cat. She is not used to being inside the house and she could get scared and hide somewhere. Let's just get a mousetrap," she said.
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